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DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by ignoramous »

bewareofscams wrote: post #7

Beware of the author of tweet, who happens to be author of OpenCode - OpenCode will leak all your data to themselves and to shady 3rd parties. Author feigned ignorance and never fixed the issue. OpenCode among other harnesses is the shadiest of all. https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10416

I like the OpenCode team, but their marketing push to ride DeepSeek's v4 moment is a pit they're digging themselves deep into.

For instance, this "marketing" claim that it'll take 24y to break even if a user only uses 100m tokens/day (~$1.14 in DeepSeek v4 Flash usage) ignores the fact that OpenCode Go has 5h & weekly throttles. Besides, folks who self-host models usually run automated jobs [0]. I think the GPU setup could possibly serve 10+ "users" concurrently, bringing down the break even by 22y (10x).

[0] For comparision, we routinely do 200m to 500m tokens ($2 to $5) on merely 3 to 8 automated code reviews per day with DeepSeek v4 Flash on max.

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by epihelix »

DanielHB wrote: post #33
epolanski wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also privacy and offline capabilities.

One thing I realized is just how much offline local models can hurt mass data collection. For example, I needed to write an invitation letter for immigration control for a relative visiting me. Previously I would have used a search engine for a template. Today I fire up my local qwen 3.5-9b for this kind of stuff and feed it all the private data I need. Unfortunately it is unlikely the average user will known how to…

I hope for local model chat inexperienced users are just using llama.cpp's built-in web server interface, which gives you everything you need. No need for a harness or any other chat client.

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by bellowsgulch »

Fellow readers, would anyone please mind sharing their current experiences? qwen3.6-35b-a3b for local inference, GitHub Copilot Chat was previously worth it, and no longer is, tried OpenRouter and still read through their rankings to see what the industry is actively using, wholesale migrated to OpenCode Zen/Go.

Does this mirror what other people have been experiencing in waves?

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

#44

Post by edgyquant »

monster_truck wrote: post #32

I'd really rather just pay Deepseek directly. Why wouldn't I want to support the company that trained the model? It isn't even really worth the (minimal) ops to stand up rented MI300Xs to sell excess capacity to them even if it was minimally profitable, when I tried I was content to give API keys to friends to beat on it.

You can do this but you still need a harness. I like open code because I can use literally any model through it and can connect directly to the provider (although I use open router)

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by edgyquant »

pu_pe wrote: post #26

That's only true if the value of keeping your data and code private is zero. And in that case, Anthropic and OpenAI subscription plans may be even cheaper per day.

If you’re doing real work you will hit limits quickly on anthropic and codex paid tiers

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by bewareofscams »

polski-g wrote: post #34
bewareofscams wrote: post #7

Beware of the author of tweet, who happens to be author of OpenCode - OpenCode will leak all your data to themselves and to shady 3rd parties. Author feigned ignorance and never fixed the issue. OpenCode among other harnesses is the shadiest of all. https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10416

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Feel free to open the linked issue and refute all my point with something more than a shallow "akchualli no" dismissal.

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by wannabe44 »

bewareofscams wrote: post #7

Beware of the author of tweet, who happens to be author of OpenCode - OpenCode will leak all your data to themselves and to shady 3rd parties. Author feigned ignorance and never fixed the issue. OpenCode among other harnesses is the shadiest of all. https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10416

The RCE vulnerability drama made me never touch it, in any case.

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by edgyquant »

infecto wrote: post #25
jauntywundrkind wrote: post #2

That's almost half way to their stated 6X usage goal! Just from DeepSeek. > With Go, you pay $10/month and we aim to give you 6x that in usage. For most models, we make this work through bulk discounts and reserved GPU capacity. We then pass those savings on to you through the 6x multiplier. https://opencode.ai/docs/go/#why-some-models-have-lower-usag... I think it's back to 2X usage, meaning it's cheaper token-burn…

Don’t forgot a number of models they have offered to you will train on your data

Every single model does this do they not?

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by varispeed »

Isn't DGX already legacy? I mean 128GB in 2026?

Clearly nVidia and others are gatekeeping technology from the pleb so that the rich who own the datacentres can charge us massive margins.

Oh the debt or not making an even they are supposedly "suffering from" is just a classic mechanism to avoid paying taxes.

Re: DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

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Post by vonneumannstan »

monster_truck wrote: post #32

I'd really rather just pay Deepseek directly. Why wouldn't I want to support the company that trained the model? It isn't even really worth the (minimal) ops to stand up rented MI300Xs to sell excess capacity to them even if it was minimally profitable, when I tried I was content to give API keys to friends to beat on it.

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